New documents are revealing the final words Matthew Perry uttered to his assistant.
Earlier this week, law enforcement revealed that five people were arrested in connection to the “Friends” star’s tragic death. On Oct. 28, 2023, Perry died of a ketamine overdose.
While Perry’s death was ruled by the medical examiner to be “accidental,” the investigation into Perry’s death has revealed that he struggled with an addiction to ketamine.
Perry began taking the drug under the supervision of doctors treating him for depression and anxiety. Those doctors, Dr. Mark Chavez and Dr. Salvador Plasencia, alongside Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and a woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” Jazzmen Sangha have all since been arrested in connection to Perry’s death.
A man by the name of Eric Fleming was the fifth person arrested in this case.
As Deadline reports, according to U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada, the five arrested “were part of a ‘broad underground criminal network’ that supplied ketamine to Perry and others. He said the suspects ‘took advantage of Mr. Perry’s addiction issues to enrich themselves.’”
It was revealed that Perry’s assistant was the last to see Perry alive. Court documents report that Iwamasa administered Perry’s final dose of ketamine. The documents also revealed some of Perry’s final words to his assistant.
Perry told Iwamasa to “shoot me up with a big one” before he administered that final dose of ketamine. He then asked Iwamasa to prepare the jacuzzi, according to Fox News.
Perry would be later found face down in that jacuzzi.
As Deadline reports, Iwamasa, Fleming and Dr. Chavez have all agreed to plead guilty. Sangha and Dr. Plasencia have pleaded not guilty.
Following the arrests, Perry’s stepfather, journalist Keith Morrison shared a statement, saying, “We were and still are heartbroken by Matthew’s death,” the family noted, “but it has helped to know law enforcement has taken his case very seriously. We look forward to justice taking its course.”
It was revealed in the medical examiner’s report that the amount of ketamine discovered in Perry system were equivalent to the amount used for general anesthesia during surgery.
Drowning, coronary artery disease, and buprenorphine effects were listed as contributing factors in his death.